geoffpikey
9:49 Thu Sep 13
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Used to work in Ely." Nice", true, but lived in Cambridge. Bit livelier.
I'd move back to Cambridge even now.
Why isn't Salisbury on this list? Russians fly miles just for its cathedral spire.
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Nurse Ratched
9:43 Thu Sep 13
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Lower - I saw Ely in the early morning mist, too. Dense mist, red sky in the early morning, sunrise. I held my breath, it was so beautiful.
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Hammer and Pickle
9:24 Thu Sep 13
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This time of year is perfect for that sort of morning fog-off-river action - school bus used to take me from Goring-on-Thames to Theale along the Thames. Not very shabby at all, it was.
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Nurse Ratched
9:19 Thu Sep 13
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Fell in love with Ely.
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lowermarshhammer
9:17 Thu Sep 13
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Don't know about Boston.
I like Ely and it's fucking massive cathedral floating above the fog in the sunlight.
On that note one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in my life was Parliament from the south side of Lambeth Bridge one morning.
Dense fog across the river meant you couldn't really see the building at all but the sun was high enough to make all the gold gilding gleam as if it was floating in the air.
Epic shit that was.
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Nurse Ratched
9:07 Thu Sep 13
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The Fens are beautiful.
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mashed in maryland
9:03 Thu Sep 13
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lowermarshhammer 8:51 Thu Sep 13
Been told by literally everyone I've known who's ever spent any time there that Boston is the worst city in the country.
Never been myself, tbf.
Any truth in this?
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lowermarshhammer
9:02 Thu Sep 13
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Not even sure if they've got the internet...
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MikeHammer
8:59 Thu Sep 13
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Surely Salisbury has the international pull ?
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Gavros
8:58 Thu Sep 13
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Big skies and straight roads for youths to speed down and die on.
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lowermarshhammer
8:56 Thu Sep 13
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Chelmsford CITY, not really a proper city but that's what WAS good about it. Steadily becoming more fucked up by the month, I think the local council look to Croydon as the ideal path to follow.
London is both wonderful and horrific.
Strongest identity as a city is probably Glasgow or Newcastle.
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lowermarshhammer
8:51 Thu Sep 13
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I quite like the Fens. Not your classical outstanding landscape I'd agree but still a fucking quirky area of Eng er land.
Not many places do big skies as well as the Fens.
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Far Cough
8:44 Thu Sep 13
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The Fens are pretty boring though, much like Minnesota but that is mitigated by the amount of lakes Minnesota has
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Hammer and Pickle
8:37 Thu Sep 13
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Much of East Anglia looks like a piece of Central Poland has been grafted onto he British Isles.
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Nurse Ratched
8:16 Thu Sep 13
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Easy Anglia is generally lovely.
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Far Cough
8:13 Thu Sep 13
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Spent many a time in Lowestoft as a kid, wasn't my choice though, Gorleston / Yarmouth is better
Maybe I'll try Leysdown soon
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Nurse Ratched
8:10 Thu Sep 13
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"Drove through Lowestoft once, thankfully the car kept running - looked dreadful and in no hurry to return"
I agree. Awful place. Worst seaside town I've ever visited. They have disfigured the beach nearest the town with signs forbidding climbing or jumping off the rocks which, though I could be wrong, don't look as though they're a natural feature, and were just dumped there.
The town centre is run down and has the usual boring chain shops.
The people look massively inbred and their kids are weirdly misshapen.
Worst of all I had a bit of a panic attack walking over the deeply dodgy bascule bridge. I would not be remotely surprised if that bugger falls down in the near future*. And then I had no choice but to walk back across it to leave town. It rumbles and shakes when vehicles are going across it and towards the middle where the ends meet, you can see it flapping up and down when the people in front of you are getting near to the 'join'.
Could not leave Lowestoft quickly enough.
*And No, not because I walked across it you cheeky buggers!
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Pub Bigot
4:00 Thu Sep 13
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Eastender, I bet you're great fun to be around.
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the last eastender
2:55 Thu Sep 13
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England is dying there's no social cohesion.
A horrible little America.
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neilalex
2:24 Thu Sep 13
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Your mates.... thanks, that's a relief Swiss, for a moment I thought it was a Freudian slip.
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Northern Sold
2:06 Thu Sep 13
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Someone dissed Hastings.... blimey... real regeneration down there ... old town is superb (great pubs), St Leonard's next door is magnificent... don't get Khan paying for his dregs to pollute the infrastructure (like he has done with Southend) as seaside towns go it knocks the shit off the majority of them.. lovely part of the world
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